3. Bal Thackeray died in Mumbai. This is of course major political news for that part of the world, but in terms of comics it's worth noting for how Thackeray's cartooning past was consistently used I think mostly to humanize him as someone that had an artistic career before his political life; running a satirical magazine and doing some pointed editorial cartooning was also a part of his political development.

Quote Of The Week
"I liked Dylan, I like Caitlin, I like tax deductions and I like that these will get looked at more than [when] they were in my closet." -- Eric Reynolds, on donating to the Dylan Williams Collection.

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today's cover is from the small-press and independent comics scene of the late 1980s and early 1990s